Grover's Disease: What works to help find relief?

Yeast can live inside and outside the body. My yeast issues were in the vulva, always burning, yet the vagina had no discharge or itch and yeast swabs negative. For years doctors gave me no help. Finally I went to a new gyno who said yeast can live inside tissue and had me read up on anti yeast diets. She said I could have the vulva biopsied but it was painful. I read up on anti yeast diets, Dr. Crook's simple plan solved years of misery in 6 weeks, without px med. Basically a detox with no sugar or carbs for 2 months, Zero, even natural sugar as fruit. Plus no fermented cheeses or mushrooms as they breed yeast. The yeast residing in the body will starve to death. After 6 weeks major improvement and feeling great at 2 months. Now 3 1/2 months later am allowed a moderate fruit serving a few times a week and non gluten carbs, just one small serving a day. I am so happy and motivated and now that my sugar withdrawal is over (yes it is addiction and the dying yeast sends messages to the brain to be fed, demands it which lasted me 6 weeks). Yet once the yeast has died off the sugar craving leaves. I can walk by desserts and my mouth no longer waters. Simple, inexpensive and if you are in enough misery you will give it a try. It's a challenge as all detox programs are.

wow! Thanks for sharing! I'm not sure hubs can give up beer... lol.

Thank-you. This is all so new I think I'm still in shock. Mine also came on rather suddenly. What oral meds were you prescribed for the yeast infection?

GREAT post. Very informative.

@secreto sure happy to share. Here’s the complete story ... My first outbreak, he gave me just mometasone 0.1% cream. It took several months of treatment and did clear up (mostly). Then round 2 came, I used the same cream to no avail. I went back to see him as I thought I was going to scratch my skin off. He then said he though I had a secondary yeast infection. As a nurse, I’ve treated a lot of yeast skin infections and it didn’t present like a classic looking case. But I trusted him. He gave me oral diflucan 150mg with a second dose 5 days later. Then added Mupirocin 2% cream. I mixed the two creams together for months 2x day. I stopped the Mupirocin when the aweful itching subsided - did an extra week just in case. (Yeast is sneaky and will come back.) I’m pretty close to having this outbreak cleared up (fingers crossed) and just down to the mometasone cream now. Hope that helps. 🙂 Everyone seems to have different stories and different successes.

Yep - the GD is all over my torso. 🙁 Increase concentration under where my bra hits.

Doctor has now changed course of action once more. After the Calcipotriene Foam exacerbated the problem times 3 (for the second time - like once wasn't enough?), now I'm on Triamcinolone Acetonide again however a weaker dose of 0.025% instead of the usual 0.1% for two weeks. Then alternating ELIDEL (pimecrolimus) Cream 1% 5 days per week and the Triamcinolone 2 days per week from then on. We will then start a course of Isotretinoin after the required two week waiting period. So far the Triamcinolone has relieved the havoc of the Calcipotriene. Wondeing if I may be one out of every 300 people that has a Vitamin D allergy? (Used Walgreen's only coupon for non-generic Elidel $40 instead of Generic one at CVS for $160 - after Dr. re-approval for non-generic at my request. Generic at Walgreen's was $106. Amazing how they try to sell you the generic for much more!)

Hi Ethan,
Thank you for your response. I haven't received much support for my Grover's other than topical steroid creams, which I don't use much because I'd rather find a more natural cure/relief if possible. My itching does seem to feel better when I take an antihistamine, Zyrtec. I'm looking into diet in terms of eating less histamine containing foods to see if that helps, as I'm wondering if there is a connection (since the antihistamine seems to help). I will check out the autoimmune group here on Connect, but have been part of a very helpful FB group for the past few years, called Hashimotos 411. Wondering if it's unusual to have it come on suddenly like mine did? Thank you!

I just found a very interesting forum by many Grover's Disease victims on a site called Earthclinic.com. Look up Grover's Disease and check out the pages of comments. Many people are finding relief and cures by using high dose Vitamin A, and or, Cilantro, and zinc cream. Different methods by different people, but a lot of interesting, helpful, positive comments. The most successful options I've heard of so far!

Just wanted to thank you for suggestion about Elidel at Walgreens as my insurance wants $100. I used the Elidel for perioral eczema break I had 6 months ago(one of my 2 other forms besides GD) and it cleared it up. Right now going on 6 months free of GD and I can't help think my sugar detox I began 3 months ago killing off the yeast in my body is helping lower inflammation. Internal yeast in the gut creates inflammation that can cause eczema breakouts.